Italian publisher Astoria/Mauri Spagnol has acquired translation rights to Janet Rich Edwards’s Canticle, which is due out from Spiegel & Grau in the United States this December. In the meantime, the novel has been generating plenty of advanced praise from authors such as The Mercies’s Kiran Millwood Hargrave (“Compelling, lyrical, and fresh”), Culpability’s Bruce Holsinger (“a suspenseful page-turner that is also rigorously researched and utterly convincing—a true gem of historical fiction”), and The Birth of Venus’s Sarah Dunant (“a brave, intense novel about the mystical nature of a young woman’s faith and how easily it can find itself in opposition to politics and entrenched power”), among others.
Update, August 28, 2025: French publisher Editions Philippe Rey has acquired translation rights for Canticle.
